Triple

T19582875
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress E490038 entity
Predicate mottoMeaning P42 FINISHED
Object There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" is a popular adage expressing the economic principle that it is impossible to get something for nothing, as every benefit has an associated cost.
 E1385715 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch | Statement: [The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, mottoMeaning, There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
Context triple: [The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, mottoMeaning, There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch]
  • A. The Free Lunch Is Over
    The Free Lunch Is Over is a widely cited 2005 essay by Herb Sutter arguing that the end of automatic performance gains from increasing CPU clock speeds would force software developers to embrace concurrency and parallelism.
  • B. Out to Lunch
    Out to Lunch is a recurring outdoor summer concert and community gathering series held in Caras Park in Missoula, Montana.
  • C. The Best Things in Life Are Free
    "The Best Things in Life Are Free" is a 1992 dance-pop and R&B duet by Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross, recorded for the soundtrack of the film *Mo' Money* and known for its chart success and multiple remixes.
  • D. Freedom Is Not Free
    Freedom Is Not Free is a commemorative inscription and phrase honoring the sacrifices made by military service members, prominently featured at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • E. You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
    "You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again" is a candid, bestselling memoir by Hollywood producer Julia Phillips that exposes the inner workings, scandals, and power dynamics of the film industry in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
Triple: [The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, mottoMeaning, There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch]
Generated description
"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" is a popular adage expressing the economic principle that it is impossible to get something for nothing, as every benefit has an associated cost.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
Target entity description: "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" is a popular adage expressing the economic principle that it is impossible to get something for nothing, as every benefit has an associated cost.
  • A. The Free Lunch Is Over
    The Free Lunch Is Over is a widely cited 2005 essay by Herb Sutter arguing that the end of automatic performance gains from increasing CPU clock speeds would force software developers to embrace concurrency and parallelism.
  • B. Out to Lunch
    Out to Lunch is a recurring outdoor summer concert and community gathering series held in Caras Park in Missoula, Montana.
  • C. The Best Things in Life Are Free
    "The Best Things in Life Are Free" is a 1992 dance-pop and R&B duet by Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross, recorded for the soundtrack of the film *Mo' Money* and known for its chart success and multiple remixes.
  • D. Freedom Is Not Free
    Freedom Is Not Free is a commemorative inscription and phrase honoring the sacrifices made by military service members, prominently featured at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • E. You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
    "You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again" is a candid, bestselling memoir by Hollywood producer Julia Phillips that exposes the inner workings, scandals, and power dynamics of the film industry in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d8e8dd9374819098e36349b3211663 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6404f34b081908aeb9cc9a5ddf539 completed April 20, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a075f0f48b88190874f8cada3ed053d completed May 15, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07601bb12c81909faab959182b1863 completed May 15, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07613541688190821fd97e069691a5 completed May 15, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:42 p.m.